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  • Polar Sea: A Filmmaker’s Journey

    Polar Sea: A Filmmaker’s Journey

    North West Passage documentary team

    We are happy to announce that permafrost drilling team from Herschel Island got a deserved recognition and was accompanied by the Doc Studio – an online community for documentary filmmakers.

    Arctic Portal, together with PAGE21 and Herschel Island permafrost team is happy to introduce its readers to the blog from the shoot for “The Polar Sea”.

    Documentary film will be launched later this year and it will consist of 10 episodes of multi – media expedition through the Northwest Passage.

    The blog is being written by, Dylan Reibling -Director of the Herschel Island shoot for “The Polar Sea.” He’s also an award-winning filmmaker and interactive artist.

    His work ranges from documentary, stop-motion animation and narrative films to interactive prototypes. His films have travelled to 50 international film festivals. His most recent short film “Record” has been featured at 20 film festivals around the world – including screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, and the British Film Institute. Dylan won Best Director (fiction) at the 2009 Yorkton Film Festival.

  • PAGE21 field season has now begun

    PAGE21 field season has now begun

    Researchers from the University of Hamburg in Samoylov Island

    PAGE21 young researchers have just started their season of permafrost investigation in remote areas, located in the northern hemisphere. First groups took off to Kytalyk and Herschel Island earlier this month. Researchers will come back to their home institutions at the beginning of September.

    While collecting data on permafrost temperature, CO2 and CH4 fluxes, delegates from all the research stations, explain the particularity of the research done at each site. What is more they describe adventures, dangers and exciting daily life in remote tundra locations.

    PAGE21 Blogs are available for the public.

    PAGE21 project aims to understand and quantify the vulnerability of permafrost environments to a changing global climate, and to investigate the feedback mechanisms associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost zones. This research will make use of a unique set of Arctic permafrost investigations performed at stations that span the full range of Arctic bioclimatic zones. The project will bring together the best European permafrost researchers and eminent scientists from Canada, Russia, the USA, and Japan.

    The PAGE21 is a Large-scale integrating collaborative project under the ENV call topic “Vulnerability of Arctic permafrost to climate change and implications for global GHG emissions and future climate” (ENV.2011.1.1.3-1) coordinated by Professor Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten from AWI.

    Sources

    PAGE21

    PAGE21 Blogs